Combined shovel and brush.



No. 877,614. PATENTED JAN. 28, 1908.

' T. J. THOMPSON.

COMBINED SHOVEL AND BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED APR.3, 1907.

WIT-IVESSES'. cf 1 VEW'TUB.

v p. c 2am 4 W ll'NlTED STATE air arr :TTFOR'D .l. THOMPSON, OF VANG, NORTH DAKOTA.

COMBINED SHGVEL AND BRUSH.

#Specificaticn of Letters Patent.

Implication filed April 3,1907- Serial No, 366,131.

the following is a specification.

My invention relates to implements for cleaning barn floors, yards and sidewalks or other surfaces of similar character; and the object is to provide a handy and effective combination implement for said purposes. This and other objects I attain by the novel construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan view of my improved implement in the position it is used as a shovel. Fig. 2 is a side view of the implement as it appears when used alternately as a brush and scraper or even. as a hoe. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line a-a in Fig. 1 with the brace 6 omitted. Fig. 4 is an enlarged front elevation of a ring sliding on the handle and fixed to the braces 6 and 6 by which the sho el is held at various angles with relation to the handle. Fig. 5 is an enlarged portion of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an enlargement of the rear end of one of the braces 6 and 6*.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 designates the handle of the implement, and to the front end thereof is pivotally oined at 2 the middle portion of a metallic shovel blade 3, whose rear edge and side edges are turned u wardly to form guards 4 and 5, by which t e capacity of the shovel is increased.

In the side guards 5 are pivotally secured the front ends of two braces 6 and 6*, whose rear ends are rigidly secured in the tubular corners 7 of a rin 8 slidingly encirclin the handle, and is held in tWodifierent posltions by having a spring-pressedcatch engaged alternately in the two ockets 10 and 11, whereby the shovel is old respectively in the two positions shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. The ring 8 is preferably cast of malleable iron and has a socket 12 in which an eX anding coil spring 13 acts between a shoul er 1 4 of the socket and a shoulder 15 of the catch 9 to hold the latter normally toward the handle. The catch is provided with a head 16 of greater diameter than the top of the socket, so as to afford an easy chance to take hold of the head and disengage the catch from the socket when the position of the blade is to be changed. The braces 66" maybe secured in the casting either by giving 'h-' ders 17 to stop against the front casting and then rivet over the the rear side, or they may be secured by transverse iins like 19, or by creasing or striking witl 1 a punch dents 2t) in the side of the tubular parts '7 which sink: into the sides of the inserted shanks 21 of the braces and hold. them.

Upon the rear guard 4 of the blade is secured by two clamps 22, havin each a thumb-screw 23, the body or bloc 24 of a brush 24e-'25, whose block is secured to the clamp by screws 26 passing forwardly through the block and being tapped into a hole in the clamp in line with the hole having a thumb screw, while the heads of the screws bear against the rear side of the block. Such alinement of the bolt and the thumb screw in each clamp is so far important as the slit or gap of clamp passing over the guard t is so narrow that the two holes must be tapped in one operation by passing the tap through both of them, as it would be very difficult and slow to tap each hole onlv to the slit, and it would weaken so lighta clamp to drill idle clearing holes in it for the ta In using the implement, when the b ads is in the position shown in Fig. 1 it may be used as a shovel for snow, potatoes, manure, earth &c.; and when the blade is set as in Fig. 2 the implement. may be used with the blade as a scraper in cleaning light snow, manure and the like from a fairly even surface, and to do this more thoroughly and completely the brush 2-5 is turned downward and applied afterward, or if water or very, at

light snow or other matter is to be brushed or swe t away only the brush is used.

aving thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. An implement substantially as described, comprisin a shovel blade with upturned rear and si e edges, a handle pivoted ,with its front end near the middle of the upper side of the blade and having two cavities n it, a slidable collar on the handle, a spring-pressed finger-catch carried by the collar and adapted toengage alternately in the two cavities and a pair of braces pivotally secured near the rear corners of the blade and having their rear ends fixed to the slidable collar.

2. An implement substantially as de:

1' meme eeri'bed, .eomprisin "a, shovel blade with. up-' bladeend'heving their rear ends fixed to the i0 turned rear and si e edges, a hendle'pivoted slideble collar, and e btileh deteehebly sewith its front end near the middle of the cured to the rear end of the blade.

' upper side of the blade and having two eevi In testimony whereof Iaffix gny signature,

ties in it, a, slidable collar on the handle, a inpresence of two Witnesses. A a; 1 spiing-pressed 'fin er-eetch carried by the f TILFGRD J. THOMPSON. collar and adepteu to engage alternately in Witnesses: the two cavities, and a pear of braces piv- O. M. HEGSTAD,

etally secured near the rear corners of the ERICK L. THOMPSON. 

